The Colombian Teudulio Anacona Papamijaalias Smurf, one of the leaders of the Residual Organized Armed Group (GAO-R) Structure 48, who has an order to capture for purposes of extradition a Federal Court of the Southern District of California, USA, for crimes of drug trafficking and terrorism, was captured in Putumayo, a border department with Peru.
Alias ’Smurf’, also called ‘Marquetalia’, was required by red notice issued by US authorities, by the conspiracy crime to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
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According to Colombian authorities, controlled the cultivation, processing and marketing of cocaineand coordinated international drug trafficking routes with mafias in Peru and Ecuador.
With a criminal history of more than 17 years, this subject had a high capacity to affect border security and boost criminal finances.
According to the Colombian authorities, this subject played a strategic role within the criminal organization, being the responsible for managing economic resources product of drug trafficking, coordinate international drug and weapons trafficking routes with criminal networks in Peru, Ecuador and Mexico.
In addition, it facilitated criminal alliances in municipalities such as Puerto Asís, Puerto Caicedo, Villagarzón and La Hormiga (Putumayo), near the Peruvian jungle where more than 50 indigenous communities that are currently at the mercy of armed groups Colombians.
And the Peruvian State comes to that area to combat drug trafficking, but not to stay. Added to the threat from armed groups is the deforestation of the Amazon forest with the planting of hundreds of hectares of coca and the illegal production of cocaine to be exported, via Ecuador, to the United States, or via Brazil, to Europe.
The capture of alias ‘Pitufo’ or ‘Marquetalia’ was confirmed yesterday by the Minister of Defense of Colombia, Pedro Sánchez, who is currently in Washington in the middle of a diplomatic meeting between donald trumppresident of the United States, and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro.
Teudulio Anacona would be linked to an attack that occurred in 2011 in the town of Piñuña Negro, in which a non-commissioned officer and two infantrymen Colombian Navy.
Alias ’Pitufo’ would also have participated in the kidnapping of the Secretary of Government of the municipality of Orito, (Putumayo), as well as in the seizure of the Teteyé Military Base, in the municipality of Puerto Asís, in 2005, in which 22 soldiers were killed and three more were missing.
In 2016, this man joined the Peace Process; However, he relapsed into illegal activities.
Since 2021, alias ‘Pitufo’ would have positioned himself as a boss, exercising criminal control in several areas of the Colombian Amazon, and then assuming management of the criminal finances in upper Putumayo, on the border with Peruaccording to the authorities.
Who is alias “Spider”?
Alias ’Smurf’ is considered the chief financial officer of Geovany Andrés Rojas, alias ‘Araña’, chief of the Border Commandos, one of the dissident structures of the former FARC attached to the Second Marquetalia.
‘Araña’ was captured on February 12, 2025 in Bogotá by agents of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Attorney General’s Office.
Rojas is required in USA on charges related to drug trafficking. However, President Gustavo Petro stopped his extradition on November 18, 2025.
According to the document, extradition to the United States was suspended “as long as he contributes verifiable contributions and concrete results in the process of achieving Total Peace.
